PORTFOLIO - Zoe Leonard, Analogue

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Color photo showing bundles of second-hand clothes on the ground outside a buildingIn her most recent series of photographic works, Zoe Leonard focuses her square viewfinder on small shops and businesses on three continents. This series, titled Analogue (1997–2007), documents discount stores, repair shops, second-hand stores, restaurants, and flea markets that are separated by thousands of miles.

 

Yet, they share a common consumerism vocabulary and are linked by a global network of traded goods, as exemplified by bundles of second-hand clothes that have made the round trip between developing countries and the United States.

 

Color photo of a factory's window showing a pile of rolls of fabric inside and three more or less filled carts outsideColor photo showing bundles of second-hand clothes piled up in an exterior space

 

Color photo showing a series of different colors men shirts hanged on top of each otherColor photo of an eclectic flea market selling second-hand objects such as televisions, projectors, fans, etc.

 

Color photo of brooms stuck in sandbags in the front a shop's windowColor photo of a small store covered up with Coca-Cola advertisements

 

Color photo of an exterior view of a store's window covered up with advertisementsColor photo of a wheelbarrow with a television on it in front of the iron fence of an old building on a cobblestone street

 

Color photo of different second-hand objects such as shoes, wheels, ashtrays, candle-holders, etc. disposed in order on the ground of a flea-marketColor photo of an exterior view of two juxtaposed pieces of furniture wrapped in plastic with a price tag

 

Color photo of a shop's window covered with images of domestic productsColor photo of a shop named Century Photo Center with a Kodak sign and the shop is painted with the yellow and red Kodak colors

 

Color photo of small shops selling electronic products with one showing in the window images of the products it sellColor photo of two pairs of laced shoes on a blueish sheet of paper laying on the ground

 

Color photo showing two wooden sheds, one of them painted in pink with Artist written on it

 

Image from Analogue, 1998-2009 412 C-prints + gelatin silver prints, each print 11 x 11 in. (28 x 28 cm), courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
© Zoe Leonard

La rédaction · CV79 · Sunday, 01 June 2008 00:00
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